The first ever no-holds barred account of the life of one of rock’s most iconic figures. With candor and lyricism Rickie Lee Jones takes us on the journey from her nomadic childhood to her beginnings at LA’s Troubadour, her tumultuous relationship with Tom Waits, her battle with drugs, and longevity as a woman in rock and roll.

  • "…as rich and colorful as Jones’s best lyrics. It’s a classically American picaresque tale, a recounting of a life in which she “lived volumes as a young girl long before I was famous.”" -

    The New York Times

  • “This tender, fierce, intimate memoir is testament that Jones has lived a life as brave… and rich as her music — with love, heartbreak, addiction, and magic, sprinkled throughout.”

    — O, the Oprah Magazine (55 most anticipated books in 2021)

  • "In a book about the past, Jones has no problem moving on. It’s a neat trick."

    — Washington Post

  • "Rickie Lee Jones, memoirist: candid, cosmic, and so cool."

    — Boston Globe

  • “In gorgeous prose interspersed with her lyrics, this is as distinctive as she is, a rich, bracing, and candid memoir dancing with the love of language.”

    — Booklist (starred review)

  • "This sounds an awful lot like Huck Finn talking."

    — Scott Carrier, New Yorker radio

  • "One of the most compelling memoirs I’ve ever read… What really sucks you in, and lifts you up, is the dazzling magic of her prose."

    — Please Kill Me

  • "But what makes this a most inspiring memoir is her absorbing storytelling, facility with language (no surprise there) and her fealty to integrity – commerce be damned. How refreshing."

    — MOJO

  • "So remarkably beautifully written showing Rickie Lee’s signature as a songwriter, too."

    — Scott Simon, NPR

  • "Rickie Lee Jones' life became her art"

    — Rolling Stone

  • "Jones is as fearless in prose as she is on stage."

    — Minneapolis Star-Tribune

  • "Rickie’s story resembles Cissy, the heroine of Tom Robbins’ classic novel, Even Cowgirls Get The Blues, the story of a young girl trying to find the world through the kindness of strangers offering her a ride to anywhere but here."

    — Hilton Als - The New Yorker

RICKIE LEE JONES - INTERVIEWS / REVIEWS

About the book Last Chance Texaco

Rickie’s appearance on The View-ABC. April 29, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGszpJ2ystc

MOJO interview

“Rickie Lee Jones Shares The Soundtrack To Her Youth” (NPR World Cafe)

 

“Rickie Lee Jones: ‘I had lived volumes long before I was famous'” (The Guardian / The Observer)

 

“Rickie Lee Jones offers a raw and roving account of her life in ‘Last Chance Texaco'” (The Washington Post)

Conversation with my friend Teresa Tudury (1)

This 7 minute zoom is the first in a series of talks with musicians Teresa Tudury (teresatudury.com), long time friend of mine and singer of original songs. Her perspective of my work is insightful. She is a fantastic intellect and humorist, and her bio is available on my website. For some (accidental) reason none of the book stores hired women to talk about the book. Here we are together in the first -edited by me!!- recorded in March. Check out how women girlfriends talk to each other when no one is around! I just washed my hair!

“Why ’80s Superstar Rickie Lee Jones, Who Sang the Hit ‘Chuck E’s in Love,’ Walked Away from Fame”, by Gillian Telling (People)

 

“Rickie Lee Jones, memoirist: candid, cosmic, and so cool”, by Matthew Gilbert (Boston Globe)

 

“Last Chance Texaco” — Rickie Lee Jones Remembers (Art Fuse)

 

‘It’s a great adventure story,’ says singer Rickie Lee Jones of her new memoir (Star Tribune)

 

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